The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1887-08-17

like she can't git lo7g nowheres.
Well, t'other day she come to my
house and wanted to stay a day or
so, and | couldn't turn the poor
thing outer doors, and she's jest
been a stayin' on. Well, yester.
day she says to me-oh, hits jest
too funny"
(There was an other mirthful
outburst and then the little widow
continued.)
"She says to me "Miss McMinn,
says she I'm gettin' orful tired
bein' beat and banged round from
one house to t'other, she says 4
want home of my own She
says, III just tell you what, you
go and see ole man Myers for me-
CLAWS a me child | says,
what are you talkin' bout. Old
man Myers amt got no wife. You
can't go live with him
"Never mind that. she says.
you go and see i'm for me, and
you tell i'm I'm a poor gal, that
amt got no homc,' she says, you
tell i'm he might go further and
fare heap worse, for there amt
nothin' that l can't do She says,
81 can cook, wash and iron as good
as the next one. / can do all kinds
of sewin.'
"Look adhere, Lizzie l says,
what are you talkin' bout, | says,
my land alive, gal, do you want
me to ask him to marry you? Why,
l never hearn tell of such thing
since | was horned on the face of
this yearth. Hits the mau as does
the courtin, / says.
"'Oh. shucksP she says. 4 amt
got no time to be waitin' on him;
like as not he'd never think bout
it at all, she says, and hits the
truth, too. [ don't believe it
would ever come into his mind
while the world stands,
"N by, Lizziel" 1 says, what in
the name of all creation would /
do if he was to say no? Wouldn t
be in a pretty fix then? Why,
he might jest up and say he
wouldn't have you. Why, I'd feel
just like plum fool But Lizzie
| lows she'd be no worse set back.
She lows if he won't have her she
can find somebody else that will.
She tuck a likin' to him down to
the frolic to old man Jones'es t.
other night, and she knows he's
got good home, and that's what
she's after"
And having fully relieved her
mind of this weighty matter, the
widow arose to go. She had deci-
ded TO start early next morning on
her mission of mercy, and she
promised to come around the next
evening and report. True to her
word the next morning she came.
She was almost skipping along this
time, and as she dropped down on
the step, her favorite seat, she gave
way to the usual burst of convul-
sive laughter. Il just had a good
mind not to come" she said.
81 know you'll nigh about kill
yourself a laughin' at me. Hits
the best joke you ever heam tell
o.. I've laughed till my sides are
plum sore" Here the little wo-
man seemed to give herself up to
her narrative, forgetting even to
laugh.
"Well, you know, / started soon
this mornin, | low hit was about
6 o'clock when | got to Silas's-
that's where ole man Myers is stay
in. Well, as good luck would
have, he was ailin' and didn't 90
out to work, and there warn't no
body in the house but him and
Mary Ann, that is Silas's wife, and
the children.
"Well, went into the house,
and while the ole man was hitch
in the horse, l tole Mary Ann
what I'd come for. She like to 6
died laughin'. She said, "Pd bet
ter have it all over before the boy,
come in from the field. cause i
they found it out they'd never gel
through laughin' about it. She
said she'd set on the back shed and
peel 'taters for dinner. while / had
my say with the ole man.
"W ell, about that time here he
come. Mary Ann she slipped out
on the back shed, and took chail
close to the window. The ole mar
he set down by the door, lent hi
chair against the wall. and bega,